Joseph Audio Pulsar 2 Graphene Placement & Break-In?

 

Sounds fantastic vdotman.

 

 

audioal11
jay's Pulsar 2s are up for sale on Audiogon.  That should answer your question ;-)
At least for jay's space.   There's been all good notices about the Pulsars at shows, and an exhibitor using JA speakers said they seem to work in most rooms.

jayh31
Understood they were an issue in your room, but otherwise can you tell me what difference you heard between the originals and the 2s?
Thanks.

Thanks very much jay!  There are very few who have owned both so yours is valuable insight.  Cheers.

@vdotman

Oh man, that worries me to hear.

I'd worried a bit from the Pulsar Graphene issues reported in this thread that maybe this would happen between the Original Perspectives to the graphene version as well.  Other Perspective Graphene owners have been very happy with the bass performance and yours if the first report I've seen of unwieldy bass with the Perspective graphenes.

I have the original Perspectives and have wanted to upgrade to the graphene version. I have a 15’ x 13’ room with a very wide room opening, which seems to allow larger speakers to "breath" pretty well. I am also able to pull them well out from the wall behind them, about 4 feet or so to the back of the speaker. The bass of the Perspectives is generally well controlled. Though it just occasionally on some content borders on too much. I’ve read that the graphene version has "tighter bass" but also "more bass" so it’s hard to know which directly that would take in my room.

Can you explain in a bit more detail why rear ported speakers have issues in your room? Is it a small room? Or are you unable to pull the speakers well out from the wall or something?

Thanks.

 

Thanks for the response vdotman!  That's helpful info.

Couple of things:  Aside from the bass issues, what did you like about the Perspectives?

Any reason why you didn't just use the sub with the Perspectives?  What did you move on to?

 

Thanks for the details vdotman!

Wow back to the Pulsars.  Very nice.  What a deal.

I'm also jealous of your time with the Graham Audio speakers.   I'm a fan of the classic Brit speakers - I own Spendor S3/5s and have owned Harbeth SuperHL5plus.   The Grahams have really intrigued me.  (Nowhere to demo them, though).

 

 

Beyond that, the JA is more detailed which in my system led to listening fatigue over time.

I've found JA speakers paired with tube amps to be wonderful.  My Perspectives paired with my CJ amps are super resolving, but smooth and easy to listen to all night.  (And I have super-sensitive ears in terms of listening fatigue.  I work all day doing sound and couldn't take a fatiguing speaker when it came time to relax and listen)